WS 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Sexually Transmitted Infection, Indian Act

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WS 104
• Professor: Melissa Avdeeff

Document Summary

Women in colonies depicted as victims/overly sexual, blamed for social ills such as poverty, delinquent children, venereal disease etc. Academic scholarship (university courses in gender and women studies, academic articles) Trying to go back to the way culture was before colonization. Pocahontas or squaw (responsible for vice and moral corruption. 1885: the pass system (first nations wanted to leave their reserves, had to get government to approve their leaving, and carry a document with them) Women couldn"t inherit land until 1951 with amendment, and only if they had. Families of men who married non-status women (including non-indigenous) receive full status (including education, health care, housing) Divorced indigenous status women must leave the reservation and can"t be buried there and children lose status. Poor living conditions, tuberculosis outbreaks, poor nutrition, poor heating, overcrowding. Discipline through violence including forced isolation, degradation, forced perception changing, physical and sexual and emotional violence.